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The Belly of an Architect

Screening on Film
Directed by Peter Greenaway.
With Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson.
United Kingdom, 1987, 35mm, color, 108 min.

This visually stunning work by Peter Greenaway chronicles the self-destructive decline of an American architect, in Rome to mount an exhibition on the eighteenth-century architect Etienne-Louis Boulée. An obsession with his stomach causes him to lose his wife, his creativity, and perhaps even his sanity. Extravagant in detail and color, the film—in true Greenaway form—is packed with art and architectural references, obsessions and omens, and exquisite traces of life and death.

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